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"You are one of the most sensitive and rather negative interpreting person I've met on these forums. Just an observation. "
Hi Gerry, I'll start with your last point. I guess I'm tired and trying to fit in posting between rushing about. I admit it, I'm Christmassed - Out. Too negative..you're right.
He has his family money and tough for everyone else. It's all about Doc and his "experience."
I agree.I don't know Doc's financial situation.I do know that most of us live in the real world and have possibly always had to get off our arses and earn some money for rent, food , survival. I know I've always had to. I have also lived amongst ordinary people who've had to do the same.Sometimes I've lived amongst or worked amongst very poor people. ( for example, when I lived in SE London I taught in the poorest and most underprivileged Boroughs/ Schools ). Nobody ever gave me a dime and that is the case , I imagine for the vast majority, isn't it ? I've always mixed ( some of the time ) with people who are not well off. Even when I was living in Paris and earning quite a lot , I lived in the poorer part of town and often dined , if invited with neighbours ( african or other immigrants or whatever ) who didn't have much.So, I'm afraid Doc's life-style doesn't impress me. Sure it may be fun for a while and I hope he does have a great time when he visits Paris on holiday, but Paris isn't Disneyland, it's a real place where real people have no choice but to get that Metro everyday ( and believe me it's hot ,sweaty,and crowded ) and work long hours in a shop, or a cafe or an office to make a living. I'm not being negative Gerry, I know what Paris is like. There is the fun and veneer for visitors but behind that there are the real people and the real lives and it isn't a holiday for them. So I'm afraid I find Doc's way of expressing himself superficial...amusing, cool but somehow vacuous.I could find Doc's easy camaraderie fun for a day or two , I suppose I could even smoke a splif or two for old times sake, but I would be perfectly aware that it was a transient escape from real life.I wonder, however if Doc is aware of that ?
Church-Ladies
OK Gerry, I didn't have time to explain and was posting from the guts.The expression is funny and I've used it myself. It was maybe Doc's context I found somehow in bad taste.He seemed to be boasting ( in a " grass" haze) that he was somehow going to have a lot of sex in Paris and then disdainfully commenting on the so called " church-ladies" . It came across in an ugly way ( coming from a guy ) and Sulla picked up on that as well.Bear in mind that I presume Doc thinks he's somehow advertising the wonderful life he is having as a premie.
Helping us Newbies by giving us the low down on old -new forum contributors.
The Mods will look after our welfare Gerry , won't they? I'd rather not know their past record ( the posters )and see them with fresh eyes.
Drugs
I've taken them.Still do very rarely. Have seen some dear people get themselves into loads of health problems because of them. I've seen and see young people getting into crime and depression, schizophrenia and a real bad scene because of them.People who don't have money and who can't afford drugs or to be drugged.I've seen kids not looked after because the parents are too stoned . I could go on. I not writing this from a point of ignorance 'cos I know about them and how they feel and the come-down and the fucked up mind. If Doc wants to be taken seriously as a writer he'll have to put out the splif but for many young people ,getting a job and managing to keep it isn't a bit of fun but a necessity.
Modified by Lexy at Fri, Dec 17, 2004, 16:35:29
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